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Family Tree – South Arts Film Series

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall
Clayton Center Event

Clayton Center for the Arts is proud to present the South Arts Film Series. Throughout the year, we will bring you six films telling compelling stories on important topics. Each film screening is only $10.00 or purchase the entire series for $45.00. The first in our six film series, Family Tree explores sustainable forestry in […]

$10.00
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Blue JeansXBallet

Community Event

Get groovy with the Appalachian Ballet Company as they open their season with contemporary dance works performed to music from Generation X (1965-1980). Join us for dinner on the plaza before enjoying an evening of dance! Performance only tickets are also available. Dinner: 6:00PM Performance: 7:15PM

$35 – $100
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Liz Longley, The Young Fables, and Striking Matches

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event , Clayton Center Season Event

Liz Longley Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. With her deeply emotional music, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country, including the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship Competition. Her self-titled debut album received critical acclaim, being […]

$30 – $50
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Knoxville Opera Present Opera’s Greatest Hits

Community Event

Join us for an exhilarating afternoon of Opera’s Greatest Hits! From Puccini to Verdi to Mozart and beyond, this showcase will highlight operatic classics and feature thrilling soloists with full chorus and orchestra. Order Tickets What to know about going to the opera - click here.

$25 – $65
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Event Series Around the World in 80 Days – Maryville Christian School

Around the World in 80 Days

Presented By: Maryville Christian School
Community Event

Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Now you can go around the world in 80 days even faster! In this new, no-intermission version of Mark Brown's hit play Around the World in 80 Days, join fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant as they race to beat the clock! Phileas Fogg […]

$20
Event Series Around the World in 80 Days – Maryville Christian School

Around the World in 80 Days

Presented By: Maryville Christian School
Community Event

Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Now you can go around the world in 80 days even faster! In this new, no-intermission version of Mark Brown's hit play Around the World in 80 Days, join fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant as they race to beat the clock! Phileas Fogg […]

$20

Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event , Clayton Center Season Event

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils have been aptly described as “a ragtag collection of hippies, bohemians, and musicians of no fixed ambition.”  They have always been indefinable in terms of music genres, producing sounds of country-rock and electric bluegrass all on the same record; writing lyrics both whimsical and poetic, singing harmonies that would send shivers […]

$50 – $75
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Santos – Skin to Skin – South Arts Film Series

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall
Clayton Center Event , Community Event

Clayton Center for the Arts is proud to present the South Arts Film Series. Throughout the year, we will bring you six films telling compelling stories on important topics. Each film screening is only $10.00 or purchase the entire series for $45.00. Our second film selection: SANTOS–Skin to Skin is a film portrait of community […]

$10
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American Patchwork Quartet

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event , Clayton Center Season Event

AMERICAN PATCHWORK QUARTET (APQ), led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation, transcending culture, politics, and ideology. A southern-born roots music aficionado, Ross is also the founder of  the […]

$35 – $55
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City of a Million Dreams – South Arts Film Series

Presented By: CCA
Clayton Center Event

Clayton Center for the Arts is proud to present the South Arts Film Series. Throughout the year, we will bring you six films telling compelling stories on important topics. Each film screening is only $10.00 or purchase the entire series for $45.00. Our third offering is City of a Million Dreams. To most people, jazz […]

$11
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Direct from Sweden – The Music of ABBA

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Season Event , Community Event

The music of ABBA” are no strangers to the incomparable sound and look of Sweden’s greatest music export with meticulous attention to costumes, make-up, musical arrangements, movements and the singing, nothing is left to chance. Adding a few of Abba’s live traits such as great solos, musical numbers and a complete live band with back-up […]

$62 – $65
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Tomáseen Foley’s Celtic Christmas

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event , Clayton Center Season Event

Rekindle the Flame in the hearth ​with stories, music, song and dance from the rich treasury of Ireland’s cultural heritage.  Spend an evening with native Irish storyteller Tomáseen Foley and some of the most gifted Celtic musicians, dancers and singers performing anywhere today, both sides of the Atlantic.  Tomáseen Foley’s A Celtic Christmas recreates the […]

$36 – $54
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Event Series Appalachian Ballet -The Nutcracker

Appalachian Ballet -The Nutcracker

Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre
Community Event

Join the Appalachian Ballet Company and Clara on a magical journey to the Land of the Sweets. Principal Artists, Laura Morton La Russa and James La Russa will be taking the stage as Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier, as well as welcoming back guest artists, Aaron Smyth and Alexandre Gonzaga. This production features live music […]

$25 – $55
Event Series Appalachian Ballet -The Nutcracker

Appalachian Ballet -The Nutcracker

Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre
Community Event

Join the Appalachian Ballet Company and Clara on a magical journey to the Land of the Sweets. Principal Artists, Laura Morton La Russa and James La Russa will be taking the stage as Sugar Plum Fairy and Cavalier, as well as welcoming back guest artists, Aaron Smyth and Alexandre Gonzaga. This production features live music […]

$25 – $55

Chanticleer

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event , Clayton Center Season Event

The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity.  Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over […]

$38 – $52
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O Pioneer – South Arts Film Series

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event

Clayton Center for the Arts is proud to present the South Arts Film Series. Throughout the year, we will bring you six films telling compelling stories on important topics. Each film screening is only $10.00 or purchase the entire series for $45.00. O Pioneer reckons with and redefines the American pioneer. This documentary follows three […]

$11
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Solstice: a Winter Circus Experience

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Clayton Center Event

Embark on an acrobatic journey with “Solstice: a Winter Circus Experience.” This captivating circus show unfolds the story of a character who has lost his inner light, plunging him into a wondrous and surreal world where memories come to life and the ordinary becomes ‘extra’ordinary. “Solstice” blends over 8 acrobatic acts with lighting, costumes, music, […]

$38 – $52
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This World is not My Own – South Arts Film Series

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall
Clayton Center Event

Clayton Center for the Arts is proud to present the South Arts Film Series. Throughout the year, we will bring you six films telling compelling stories on important topics. Each film screening is only $10.00 or purchase the entire series for $45.00. Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and […]

$11
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Appalachian Ballet – All About the Animals

Community Event

Join the Appalachian Ballet Company for this family-friendly, one performance only, production! All About the Animals will feature segments of Swan Lake Act II, featuring Principal Artists Laura and James La Russa, as well as Carnival of the Animals, and Peter & the Wolf. This performance will be accompanied by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and […]

$25 – $55
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Where the Butterflies Go – South Arts Film Series

Presented By: Clayton Center for the Arts
Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall
Clayton Center Event

Clayton Center for the Arts is proud to present the South Arts Film Series. Throughout the year, we will bring you six films telling compelling stories on important topics. Each film screening is only $10.00 or purchase the entire series for $45.00. In a desperate attempt to host his own children’s nature show, a fumbling […]

$11
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As a gathering place for the community and its visitors and as the home of the Maryville College fine and performing arts program, the Clayton Center for the Arts provides opportunities for the lifelong expression and appreciation of the arts.

The Center plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of life, bolstering cultural and economic vitality, strengthening tourism, and expanding the educational offerings for our community and region. The diversity of our community is to be reflected on our stages, in our galleries and in our audiences. Through its relationship to Maryville College, the Center will provide educational opportunities designed to attract and nurture artists of all ages. The programming is of the highest caliber and features the arts from around the world.

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